†Phyllacanthus mitchelli Emmonds 1858 (pencil urchin)
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Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Alternative combination: Cidaris mitchelli
Belongs to Phyllacanthus according to P. M. Kier 1980
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915 and Donovan and Clark 2015
Sister taxa: Phyllacanthus carolinensis, Phyllacanthus clarkei, Phyllacanthus imperialis, Phyllacanthus javanus, Phyllacanthus leoni, Phyllacanthus mortoni
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Phyllacanthus mitchelli in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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